The crime, known as the "Easey Street murders," became Melbourne's longest and most serious cold case, but no one had been arrested until now.

I was hired as a cadet journalist by Max Newton who, a dozen years earlier, had been launch editor of The Australian. He was a big thinker, a big drinker and had gone off whatever spacious rails he usually relied upon to guide his life.

Unfounded tip-offs wasted police time, wrongly pointing the finger at dozens of men in the case, including late motor racing legend Peter Brock.

The identity of the 65-year-old man arrested over the "gruesome" and "horrific" Easey Street murders has been revealed, almost 50 years after two women were found violently stabbed to death in Melbourne.

A man has been arrested in Italy over the notorious murder of two housemates in inner-city Melbourne almost half a century ago.

Nearly five decades since the murders of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett, a man has been arrested in Italy and Victoria Police are seeking to extradite him.

One of Melbourne’s oldest inner-city schools is the link connecting Perry Kouroumblis to the 1977 Easey Street murders.

A man accused of a double murder in Melbourne almost 50 years ago has been identified, as it emerged the police found him with a knife at the time.